The #USA creepy #clowns thing is maybe a hoax? Not clear, despite the reassuring title
people give up on computer #security
#reverse-engineering the firmware of an Amlogic S905 system-on-a-chip and finding that it doesn’t validate any signatures on the firmware it loads from external memory, just a hash
regular expressions for arbitrary sequences in #Clojure
#USA #AltRight groups like Identity Europa, the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance, the Council of Conservative Citizens, and Youth for Western Civilization, trying to create “safe spaces” for #fascism #politics
Bassel Kharbatil, previously public affiliate for CC Syria, disappeared from his prison cell there and has been secretly sentenced to death. It’s been 8 years since Saeed Malekpour was arrested and sentenced to death for writing #free-software that a porn site used.
#pmarca #interview on #AI
embed a remote #Jython console in a Java application; it listens for XML-RPC requests on a socket from a readline-supporting remote shell (REPL)
Judge Mayer in a concurring CAFC opinion declares that Alice outlawed most software #patents and also points out that patenting software can be an infringement on the First Amendment because software runs the internet. #USA #law
#USA #police #corruption in #Chicago
Berkeley takes down #MOOC material because #USA DoJ worries that posting videos discriminates against deaf people
Maybe ballpoint pens, which you have to press on paper to get them to write, made cursive #handwriting obsolete in the 1960s
Spencerian #handwriting
Lovelock pooh-poohs #climate-change and worries about #AI: “CO2 is going up, but nowhere near as fast as they thought it would. The computer models just weren’t reliable. In fact, I’m not sure the whole thing isn’t crazy, this climate change. You’ve only got to look at Singapore. It’s two-and-a-half times higher than the worst-case scenario for climate change, and it’s one of the most desirable cities in the world to live in.”
#cyborg beetle: “insect–computer hybrid legged robot.” Controlled by wires.
The internet of #ransomware things #iot #security #comic
#C #compilers sometimes don’t respect termination behavior of programs, turning infinite loops into no-ops
#Effugas says #Craig-Wright isn’t #Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto but rather an obvious fraud.
Nadia, Joshua Fried, and some French guys demonstrate a discrete logarithm against a 1024-bit trapdoored prime field using the special number field sieve. If people are using such a field for DH or DSA, they are vulnerable to such an attack. #crypto #math
40% of people under 30 in the #USA engage in #polyamory!
a 400× light microscope might reasonably be able to resolve 300 nm, just above the Abbe #diffraction limit for visible light. #optics #microscopes
Locher gave scientific evidence against #Galileo, which turned out to be wrong
Obama writes about #USA in the Economist, largely about hate groups like the #AltRight and about #economics and #politics #toread
Kamala Harris announces arrest of Carl Ferrer, Backpage CEO, for #prostitution in #USA
This file seems to have errors in it but apparently I can’t upload my corrected version. #wikipedia
The government has a list of the 250k people in #Turkey who installed the supposedly secure communication app "Bylock" and has arrested 53k of them. #human-rights #free-speech
A #disassembler and hex viewer for Super Nintendo #reverse-engineering
Different "unikernel" projects including LING (for Erlang) and #Mirage “OS”
#Facebook #censorship of the #USA Dakota Access protest livestreams. #human-rights
DRAKON was a flowchart language from the Russian space program for concurrent procedural specifications; this Tk implementation compiles to Golang, Java, C#, Python, Tcl, Lua, D, AutoHotkey (!), Verilog, JS, and C. It also includes a data structure diagramming language called ERIL
